Two years ago, some incumbent Republicans lost primary elections to challengers to their right, marking the growth of hard-line conservatives in Idaho politics....
The recording, which we are not posting at the request of our source, is an unfiltered look into a fracture among key far-right figures in Idaho politics, in a state where many races turn on contests of conservative purity....
The California-based Raw Milk Institute called the warnings "clearly fearmongering." The institute's founder, Mark McAfee, told the Los Angeles Times this weekend that his customers are, in fact, specifically requesting raw milk from H5N1-infected cows. According to McAfee, his customers believe, without evidence, that directly drinking high levels of the avian influenza virus will give them immunity to the deadly pathogen.
By all means, drink up, morons, get the hell out of our gene pool, we've got enough troubles without your Dimwit DNA.
He wrote that the justifications for Israel’s war in Gaza became “difficult to defend” and that “whatever the justification you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.” The post received an outpouring of support with hundreds of likes and comments in just a few...
“Probably the biggest misunderstanding is they’re all homeless,” she said. “Instead, 76% are low-income elderly who worked their whole lives, are living on Social Security and are struggling.”...
I refuse as well, and will continue to refuse, at least until my 1997 and 2005 vehicles can no longer be repaired for some reason. I'd love some EV tech but the idea of driving a Big Brother vehicle that's fender-to-fender loaded with spyware and "features" that can only be enabled via subscriptions is horrifying and dystopian. Also forget all the Big Screen distractions inside and all the self-driving antifeatures. At least 1/2 of my driving is done for pleasure and I expect to be focusing on the road and what's happening around me.
Just stay tuned for the show when/if the Orange Fascist gets into office again. Cuts to Medicare, SS, and a dismantling of the ACA will be top priorities, and then you're going to see huge increases in the numbers of homeless old folks. Grandpa and Grandma trudging their carts down the road, loaded with the sum or their earthly possessions, heading for the next place to sit next to traffic with a cardboard sign or heading for the nearest tent-city that hasn't been ripped apart by the cops. These income/benefits cuts (and similar - think Medicaid) will be savage for younger people too, but younger people can at least, usually, at minimum, get some kind of crappy job whereas older people, the vast majority of whom are on small, fixed incomes, will very often be unemployable due to illness or injury or (as should be obvious to anyone who pays attention) age discrimination. If that sub-minimum-wage job office job can be done by 20yo Sally or 70yo Sam, if that house-painting job can be done by 20yo Chad or 60yo Cindy, guess who's going to get the job and who's going to be unable to rent even a single-room flat because of no job, no income.
I point this out mainly because one seldom encounters articles that are sympathetic to the financial plights of older people - they're assumed to be all out playing golf at The Club all day, eating restaurant meals afterwards, taking long vacations whenever, just because, and living in comfortable, fully-owned houses with incomes that support their upkeep as well as the upkeep+use of that brand new gigantic RV parked outside. Oldster unemployment and poverty and medical debt and, ultimately Oldster homelessness, is just outside of the narrative.
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
Re: the comments here
I'm not for a moment buying the "too busy to cook, must eat fast food" argument or similar arguments portraying fast food as, why, almost necessary in this busy day and age! If you don't want to cook (I don't want to if I can avoid it, but do it anyway occasionally and usually make several days worth of dish X at a time to minimize my cooking time), you can easily go to you nearby Winco/Walmart/Aldi/etc and load up on some interesting frozen dishes for way, way less $ than the prices I'm seeing mentioned here. And I'm not talking about some kind of 1960s "TV dinner" things either - bogus stereotype of the concept. Even Trader Joe's (where you shouldn't shop b/c anti-union) is comparatively cheap and has super interesting frozen stuff. No time to cook tonight? Well just pop your frozen dish out of the freezer and into the microwave and five minutes later you've got an actual "meal" of sorts in front of you, and likely one with 1/10th the calories of that "meal" you got from McFatsos at 5x the price.
Ah, but it won't be DEEP FRIED goodness and lots and lots and lots of volume and lots and lots of pure concentrated sugar in that totally mandatory fast food dessert. No, you'll probably be getting a relatively (to McFatsos) small-ish portion and it probably won't have started its life being deep-fried and it might just have some interesting veggies ... and no dessert unless you explicitly microwave something else.
This Will Not Stand! Must have fat and more fat and more deep fry and more sugar .... that's a "meal" ... and must have it because, er, oh yeah, "no time". Yeah, that's it, no time.
Americans are simply addicted to garbage food (fat/sugar) and in tremendous quantities and if they don't get it, well now, the world is going to hell clearly.
Partial source: worked in fast food in HS (McD's clone) for a few years and did pretty much every task there was to be done in the "kitchen". The "kitchen" being, in that case, a grill for cooking greasy burgers and prepping greasy bacon and a deep fat fryer for frying up those potatoes in bulk and also the "tots" (same grease as the fries) and also the frozen "pie" concoctions (same grease as the fries).
Eating this crap if you have a grocery store anywhere nearby and a microwave is completely unnecessary but people do it anyway because it tastes soooo good! .... because of grease and sugar.
OK if you're on the road all the time, a trucker or on an extended road trip, you have to figure out something cheap/healthy, but pretty much every motel room I've ever rented has come with a fridge and a microwave and I've had no problems figuring out a workable solution with the hardware available.
Say "no" to garbage "food" addiction and you'll save a fortune.
A medic who worked at Sde Teiman's field hospital said that Palestinian detainees there are stripped "of anything that resembles human beings" and that the harassment and torture are done not to "gather intelligence" but "out of revenge" for the October 7 attacks....
Service charges; resort fees; "surcharge" add-ons: If you've been startled by unexpected fees when you pay your check at a restaurant — or book a hotel room or buy a ticket to a game, you're far from alone. But if you live in California, change is coming. A new state law requiring price transparency is set to take effect in...
... and over the fact that article mentions the universe being billions of years old, which we know to be false because some old book says so, supposedly, not that any of them have read that book. Ban all Webb data, keep that stuff out of our libraries and schools!
The FAA has opened an investigation into Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after the company disclosed that employees in South Carolina falsified inspection records on work done where the wings are joined to the fuselage body....
I lived in North Bend for six years, and I'm not even a zebra. Nothing much ever happened there but the town, together with neighboring Snoqualmie, was used in some of the Twin Peaks filming, none of which involved zebras AFAIK. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks_(fictional_town)
The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
I agree that such arrests are just a fear-inducing (i.e. "state terror") tactic. It sounds like the final decision to pursue/not-pursue charges was up to a judge, at least in this case. It would be interesting to know if the cops knew or cared about what (and what quality) evidence they had or didn't have.
Police arrested 57 people for criminal trespassing, a misdemeanor akin to loitering. Travis County Attorney Delia Garza's office said Friday all those charges have been dismissed after a county judge found insufficient evidence to proceed.
Oh, where? And how are you (I'm assuming US citizen?) going to get permanent resident status in these places. I (US citizen) would have moved to Germany or Canada decades ago if they were just letting us in, and even formally applied to the latter but got shot down by the authorities there.
Just lovely. Despite being a long-time Mint customer (and currently pre-paid for quite some time into the future) I fully expect to get screwed in some substantial way by this.
A resolution called for ending the ability to vote for U.S. senators. Instead, senators would get appointed by state legislatures, as it generally worked 110 years ago prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913....
Sue Kuehl Pederson picked up 86% of the convention votes and secured the party’s nomination for commissioner of public lands.
Kuehl Pederson wants to make logging a more prominent part of the state’s economy.
“Unfortunately, our timber industry, which was the backbone of our economy for at least a century … it went down the tubes,” Kuehl Pederson said in a speech Friday.
Kuel Pederson, a former senior environmental analyst at Seattle City Light, said the state needs to get its power from a mix of resources. She said the state will experience power blackouts if it transitions completely away from hydroelectric power produced by dams.
“You know, wind and solar are fine,” she said. “They make you feel good about, you know, clean air, but you can’t live off of it.”
Fucking neckbeard. Sounds like Traumatic Brain Injury for the poor girl, she could be affected (seizures &other neurological problems) for the rest of her life.
How in hell can your 10-14yo not go to school and nobody lifts a finger? School's not mandatory in W. VA? Somebody's been watching closely enough that they know how many times the girl left the house in four years, but nobody thought intervention was called for?
The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....
You can be sure that these jailed homeless people will end up being forced into labor - enslaved - because you can't let dirt-cheap labor go to waste, and you can't let a poor person look like they're getting something for nothing - mooching, free-riding - even if it's not their choice. Handouts are legitimately only for the rich and their corporations after all. If someone's fined+jailed and won't work for some capitalist exploiter, what will be done? I would guess some kind of torture will be employed to change their minds, but wouldn't be surprised if they're simply executed, especially if they're non-white.
Florida Governor Ron DeStantis has signed a law that prevents cities or counties from creating protections for workers who labor in the state's often extreme and dangerous heat....
Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates held 12 focus groups with students, teachers, community members and school board members and put together a “Leadership Profile Report.”...
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has gone beyond the education culture wars by targeting local bond and levy elections, which districts rely on heavily to build and repair schools....
The Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities has required NIC to make teach-out agreements for all of its academic programs by the end of August. These agreements would be signed by nearby institutions that would allow students to transfer if NIC loses accreditation.
Swayne said it still could be a hardship for some NIC students to transfer to another school. There isn’t another Idaho community college nearby, and even transferring to University of Idaho in Moscow would bring higher tuition and would require moving. Transferring to a college in the Spokane area would mean out-of-state tuition and a commute.
Members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have warned America for three years to take former President Donald Trump at his word....
This is maddening. It's not just Big Food that's in on the "fat is fine" bandwagon. My gym, a YMCA, likely once upon a time had "fitness" instructors who would help you craft a workout plan. Now that's all gone, and they have "wellness" instructors instead, who happen to be, at my gym, two very obese people clad every single day in 100% stretch-wear. Of the TVs in the weight/cardio area, half are tuned to professional sports and the other half are tuned to "cooking" shows - Chef Fatso hawking his/her wares to all the "food" addicts in the room and sending the message loud and clear: "eat whatever tastes good, eat as much of it as you want (the more the better), and don't let anyone make you feel bad/weird for doing so". There's no question that today investors are backing fat and overeating whereas there was a time in the not-too-distant past that they were backing fitness and controlling (meaning, restricting in some way) dietary intake instead.
NPR is steaming down the "condescending" path now too, with their daily headlines of the form "XYZ, what you need to know" and "what to know about ABC" .... as in (today) "What to know as jury selection begins ..." . I'm just like, "FU NPR, I don't need you to dictate to me the things that are important or not important to me, I'll make that call, your job is simply to fill in the blanks when and if asked, no more and no less."
"We are offering our pilots voluntary programs for the month of May to reduce excess staffing," a United spokesperson said in a statement to NPR, attributing the decision to "recent delays in Boeing deliveries."...
I live right under the approach/departure path for the main runway at our airport, a couple of miles away. Probably around 100 flights/day total in/out, many of them B737s, flying around 2000' overhead. I'm wondering if I should expect to find pieces of Boeing's Finest in the back yard or coming through the ceiling soon. So far there's been no "blue ice" but there has also been no door plugs or tires, so could just be a matter of time. Fortunately the busiest carrier uses Embraers for many if not most of their traffic so that's probably a good thing for me.
The truth is that Donald Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power. No president in our history has done worse....
Former president Donald Trump disseminated on social media on Friday an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied and his mouth gagged, the latest example of the Republican candidate’s use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season....
A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband in 2022, then published a children’s book about grief, now faces another attempted murder charge for allegedly drugging him weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day....
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is deploying more than 1,100 personnel to Baltimore, Md., following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the Patapsco River early Tuesday morning, the service said in a statement. ...
While I'm not against the feds working on this, I would much rather see the company that owned the ship and/or its insurance companies foot the bill for the whole mess. "Personal Responsibility", that was supposed to be a virtue of some sort I've heard. That and "anti-socialism". Let's see BigShip corporate types walk the walk here, preferably right off the plank.
The bridge can be rebuilt "whenever" as far as I'm concerned. That's irrelevant. All that I'm saying here is that I want the private parties responsible to foot the bill ultimately. That doesn't mean work can't start tomorrow, or next week, or next year, whatever. I'm pretty tired of the BigCorp "socialism for me, not for thee" attitude and don't want them to get away with it once again.
Trump election lies, COVID misinformation: New far-right Idaho candidates are on the ballot ( www.idahostatesman.com )
Two years ago, some incumbent Republicans lost primary elections to challengers to their right, marking the growth of hard-line conservatives in Idaho politics....
Secret recording shows how a right-wing Idaho lobbyist tried to keep a legislator in lockstep ( www.invw.org )
The recording, which we are not posting at the request of our source, is an unfiltered look into a fracture among key far-right figures in Idaho politics, in a state where many races turn on contests of conservative purity....
Raw milk fans plan to drink up as experts warn of high levels of H5N1 virus ( arstechnica.com )
US Army officer resigns over 'unqualified support' for Israel ( taskandpurpose.com )
He wrote that the justifications for Israel’s war in Gaza became “difficult to defend” and that “whatever the justification you’re either advancing a policy that enables the mass starvation of children, or you’re not.” The post received an outpouring of support with hundreds of likes and comments in just a few...
This soup kitchen volunteer is feeding more people than ever. Those being served aren’t who you’d think. ( vtdigger.org )
“Probably the biggest misunderstanding is they’re all homeless,” she said. “Instead, 76% are low-income elderly who worked their whole lives, are living on Social Security and are struggling.”...
Small, well-built Chinese EV called the Seagull poses a big threat to the US auto industry ( apnews.com )
A tiny, low-priced electric car called the Seagull has American automakers and politicians trembling....
The cost-of-living crisis is so bleak that some Gen Zers genuinely fear becoming homeless ( fortune.com )
Americans are choking on surging fast-food prices. "I can't justify the expense," one customer says ( www.cbsnews.com )
Kevin Roberts remembers when he could get a bacon cheeseburger, fries and a drink from Five Guys for $10. But that was years ago. When the Virginia high school teacher recently visited the fast-food chain, the food alone without a beverage cost double that amount....
'Barbaric': Whistleblowers Further Expose Israel's Torture of Detained Palestinians ( www.commondreams.org )
A medic who worked at Sde Teiman's field hospital said that Palestinian detainees there are stripped "of anything that resembles human beings" and that the harassment and torture are done not to "gather intelligence" but "out of revenge" for the October 7 attacks....
California says restaurants must bake all of their add-on fees into menu prices ( www.npr.org )
Service charges; resort fees; "surcharge" add-ons: If you've been startled by unexpected fees when you pay your check at a restaurant — or book a hotel room or buy a ticket to a game, you're far from alone. But if you live in California, change is coming. A new state law requiring price transparency is set to take effect in...
James Webb Space Telescope chief scientist Jane Rigby receives highest US civilian award ( www.space.com )
They Walk Among Us: Mississippi Goddamn, Still ( www.commondreams.org )
Boeing 787 employees falsified inspection records; FAA opens probe ( www.seattletimes.com )
The FAA has opened an investigation into Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner after the company disclosed that employees in South Carolina falsified inspection records on work done where the wings are joined to the fuselage body....
Ron DeSantis bans 'global elite' lab-grown meat ( www.bbc.com )
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis has banned lab-grown meat, saying he will "save our beef" from the "global elite" and its "authoritarian plans"....
Whistleblower Josh Dean of Boeing supplier Spirit AeroSystems has died ( www.seattletimes.com )
Police and public capture runaway zebras in Washington state, but one is still missing ( www.nbcnews.com )
U.S. birth rate drops to record low, ending pandemic uptick - CBS Detroit ( www.cbsnews.com )
The pace of babies born each year in the U.S. has slowed to a new record low, according to an analysis of 2023 birth certificate data published Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. ...
Charges dropped against all 57 pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested on UT campus ( www.kut.org )
Hell yeah, Austin. Hell yeah, Garza.
‘They Are Just Pissed Off’: Scott Galloway Warns Young People Are ‘Opting Out of America’ As Older Generations Failed Them ( www.mediaite.com )
Senior Democrat calls for arrests of ‘leftwing fascists’ urging Gaza ceasefire | The Guardian ( www.theguardian.com )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/11456897...
T-mobile gets FTC approval to buy Mint mobile
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and-telecom-law/t-mobile-wins-fcc-approval-to-buy-budget-provider-mint-mobile
Michigan father 1st charged under new safe gun storage law after son shoots himself in the face ( abcnews.go.com )
The WA GOP put it in writing that they’re not into democracy ( www.seattletimes.com )
A resolution called for ending the ability to vote for U.S. senators. Instead, senators would get appointed by state legislatures, as it generally worked 110 years ago prior to the passage of the 17th Amendment in 1913....
Teen McDonald’s Employee Was Beaten by Adult Customer in Parking Lot ( www.riverfronttimes.com )
Tennessee teacher arrested after bringing guns to preschool and threatening to shoot colleague ( www.nbcnews.com )
Sheneca Cowart faces multiple felony gun charges following the incident at The Academy of McCrory Lane on Thursday....
West Virginia mother charged in death of daughter found "emaciated to a skeletal state" ( www.cbsnews.com )
A West Virginia mother is facing charges in the death of her 14-year-old daughter who was found "emaciated to a skeletal state."...
Gov. DeSantis signs new law requiring instruction in public schools on the history and ‘dangers’ of communism ( www.news4jax.com )
Can homeless people be fined for sleeping outside? A rural Oregon city asks the US Supreme Court ( apnews.com )
The scenes were emblematic of the crisis gripping the small, Oregon mountain town of Grants Pass, where a fierce fight over park space has become a battleground for a much larger, national debate on homelessness that has reached the U.S. Supreme Court....
Florida blocks heat protections for workers right before summer ( www.npr.org )
Florida Governor Ron DeStantis has signed a law that prevents cities or counties from creating protections for workers who labor in the state's often extreme and dangerous heat....
Public school board listed 'Christian values' among desires for superintendent ( www.wpr.org )
Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates held 12 focus groups with students, teachers, community members and school board members and put together a “Leadership Profile Report.”...
The influential conservative group making it harder for Idaho districts to fix their schools ( www.propublica.org )
The Idaho Freedom Foundation has gone beyond the education culture wars by targeting local bond and levy elections, which districts rely on heavily to build and repair schools....
Arson attack damages Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office ( vtdigger.org )
An arsonist set fire to the door of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’ Burlington office Friday morning, briefly trapping staff inside, according to police....
Trump says he’ll jail his opponents. Members of the House Jan. 6 committee are preparing ( www.seattletimes.com )
Members of the House committee that investigated the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol have warned America for three years to take former President Donald Trump at his word....
"Stand where he tells you to stand": Why the GOP is doubling down on misogyny in 2024 ( www.salon.com )
"Stand where he tells you to stand, wear what he tells you to wear, and do what he tells you to do."...
As obesity rises, Big Food and dietitians push ‘anti-diet’ advice ( www.washingtonpost.com )
General Electric completes split into 3 public companies Tuesday ( www.axios.com )
United asks pilots to take unpaid leave in May because of delivery delays at Boeing ( www.npr.org )
"We are offering our pilots voluntary programs for the month of May to reduce excess staffing," a United spokesperson said in a statement to NPR, attributing the decision to "recent delays in Boeing deliveries."...
‘If it’s Boeing, I’m not going’: Some travelers nervous to fly after recent plane issues ( www.wfla.com )
Our Trump reporting upsets some readers, but there aren’t two sides to facts: Letter from the Editor ( www.cleveland.com )
The truth is that Donald Trump undermined faith in our elections in his false bid to retain the presidency. He sparked an insurrection intended to overthrow our government and keep himself in power. No president in our history has done worse....
Donald Trump shares image of Joe Biden bound and gagged ( www.seattletimes.com )
Former president Donald Trump disseminated on social media on Friday an image of President Biden with his hands and feet tied and his mouth gagged, the latest example of the Republican candidate’s use of increasingly violent rhetoric and imagery this campaign season....
US Army Suffers Third Apache Helicopter Crash in Two Months ( www.thedefensepost.com )
Children's author Kouri Richins hit with new charges alleging earlier attempt to kill her husband ( apnews.com )
A Utah woman who authorities say fatally poisoned her husband in 2022, then published a children’s book about grief, now faces another attempted murder charge for allegedly drugging him weeks earlier on Valentine’s Day....
Army Corps of Engineers to deploy 1,100 personnel to Baltimore ( thehill.com )
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) is deploying more than 1,100 personnel to Baltimore, Md., following the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge into the Patapsco River early Tuesday morning, the service said in a statement. ...